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| Sunday May 28 | Room 170, Ross South Building |
Room 171, Ross South Building |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome Heather Eaton, President, Canadian Theological Society |
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| 9:15-11:00 | Panel A: Theological Responses to Religious Pluralism: Guidance for the Contemporary Practitioner? Participants: Paul Allen (Concordia University), Laurie Lamoureux-Scholes (Concordia University), Ian Ritchie (St. Luke's Anglican Church) |
Are We A 'We' Yet?: The Emergence of Multi-faith Progressive Political Coalitions -- Nancie Erhard (St. Mary's University) Canadian Mines and Christian Resistance -- Anne Marie Dalton (St. Mary's University) |
| 11:00-12:15 | Beyond Relationality: Toward a New Feminist Ethic of Mutuality -- Margaret Love (St. Paul University) Language for Change -- Lorraine Ste-Marie (St. Paul University) |
We Remember Zion: Rastafari Theological Reflections on the City -- Christopher Duncanson-Hales (St. Paul University) Towards a Theology of Friendship in the "Global Village" -- Nadia Delicata (Regis College, University of Toronto) |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30-3:15 | Orientalism in Theology: Jesus' Representation -- Magi Abdul-Masih (St. Mary's University) Cosmopolitan Identities of Engaged Christianity: An Ascension-based Analysis -- Peter Bisson (Campion College, University of Regina) |
Panel B: The Future of Liberation Theology: Prospects and Prognoses Participants: Lee Cormie, chair (St. Michael's College, TST), Scott Dunham (University of New Brunswick), Néstor Medina (Emmanuel College, TST), Jeff Nowers (Emmanuel College, TST) |
| 3:30-5:30 | Panel C: Sophia at the Gates: The Wisdom of Women's Ordination in the Canadian Roman Catholic Church Participants: Marie Bouclin (Independent Scholar), Michele Birch-Conery (North Island College), Rosemary Ganley (Independent Scholar), Elaine Guillemin (Ryerson University) |
Fleeing To and From the City: The Influence of Urban Life on the Early Work of Henry David Thoreau and Søren Aabye Kierkegaard -- Robert Martel (Independent Scholar) The Visibility of 'Indecent' Pain: Virginia Woolf and the Raverats -- Alyda Faber (Atlantic School of Theology) |
| 6:30 - | CTS Dinner (location TBA) |
| Monday May 29 | Room 170, Ross South Building
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Room 171, Ross South Building
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| 8:30-10:00 | Panel D: Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: The Future of Church Participation in the Public Forum Participants: Brenda Appleby, chair (St. Francis Xavier University), Neil Parker (St. Paul University), Carolyn Sharp (St. Paul University) |
The Cauldron of the City: Spirituality in Urban Life -- David Perrin (St. Paul University) Cities as Humanizing and Dehumanizing: A Theological Reflection -- Christine Jamieson (Concordia University) |
| 10:15-12:15 | Panel E: Struggling to Recreate the World Participants: Janet Conway (Ryerson University), Michel Beaudin (Université de Montréal), Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd (Augustine United Church), Lee Cormie (St. Michael's College, TST) |
Sex in the City: Human Trafficking and the Sexual Slavery of Women and Children -- Eileen Kerwin Jones (St. Paul University) The Influence of Feminist Theology on Canadian Women Artists -- Mary Ann Beavis (St. Thomas More College) |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
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| 1:30-3:15 | Sightseeing with Kant, Blindseeing with Freud: Urban Evil, Transparent and Opaque -- Cameron Thomson (University of St. Michael's College) The Holy Spirit as a Growing Edge of God -- Don Schweitzer (St. Andrew's College, University of Saskatchewan) |
Eco-Justice - Visioning the Next New Normal -- Joy Kennedy (Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives) Fondation d'un Centre de spiritualité écologique à Montréal -- Marie-Andrée Michaud (Wisdom University) |
| 3:30-4:30 | Presidential Address -- Heather Eaton (St. Paul University) |
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| 4:30-5:30 |
Annual General Meeting
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| 7:00- | CSPS/CSSR/CSBS/CTS Joint Lecture: Bart Ehrman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): "The Alternative Vision of the Gospel of Judas" Location TBA. Reception to follow (hosted by CSPS). |
| Tuesday May 30 | Room 170, Ross South Building
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Room 171, Ross South Building
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| 8:30-10:00 | Panel G (Seminar): Re-reading Classic Texts: Bonhoeffer's Christ the Center Participants: David Tiessen, chair (Wycliffe College), Chris Holmes (Providence Theological Seminary), Alison Hari-Singh (Wycliffe College) |
The Earth Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Foundational Principles and Expanded Meanings -- Jessica Fraser (St. Paul University) The Tao of Liberation: Exploring the Ecology of Transformation -- Mark Hathaway (Independent Scholar) |
| 10:15-12:15 | Panel H (Book Review): Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies, by Heather Eaton Participants: Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd, chair (Augustine United Church), Arthur Walker-Jones (University of Winnipeg), David Hallman (United Church of Canada), Anne Marie Dalton (St. Mary's University) |
Barth and Wright. Bridging the Gulf in Biblical Studies -- Mike Michielin (Trinity College, TST) On the Gift and Reciprocity: Marion contra Milbank -- Darren Dahl (McMaster University) |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
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| 1:30-2:30 | Student Essay Contest . . . Winning Essay:
The World as City of the Spirit: The Spirit of Ecology and Technological Culture -- Andrew Gabriel (McMaster Divinity College) |
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| 2:30-4:00 | A Feminist Reading of the Easter Triduum Liturgies -- Susan Roll (St. Paul University) Eschatology from Liturgy: The Roman Catholic Order of Christian Funerals -- Sherri Vallee (St. Paul University) |
Panel I: Alternatives in Theological Education in Canada: The Winnipeg Experience Participants: Jane Barter Moulaison, chair (University of Winnipeg), James Christie (University of Winnipeg), Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd (Augustine United Church), August Konkel (Providence College & Seminary), Bill Blaikie (Member of Parliament [NDP], United Church of Canada) |
| 4:00 | Adjournment John Franklin, Incoming President, Canadian Theological Society |
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